Hackintosh 10.5.5 Retail Rig - Starting at $305

[negatv]

Good to know.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: sonoflee

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: sonoflee

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: sonoflee
So I used the Leopard Soup instructions, and almost everything is working perfectly. One issue is with my (very old) iPod, it's one of the brick-like old versions that uses a regular FireWire cable to connect. When I plug it into the hackintosh, it mounts on the desktop, and even has the right iPod icon - but it never even shows up in iTunes. A newer iPod (usb connection) worked perfectly. Any ideas?

I don't have an iPod, but I do have an MP3 player and it has a switch in the settings which allows it to be seen either as a flash drive or a sync capable device in iTunes or Media player. Does the iPod perhaps have a similar function? Is this a DS3L or UD3P? I just ask because one has built-in firewire and the other relies on a PCI card. Thought maybe this might be a factor. HTH

You can use the iPod as a hard drive in addition to syncing in iTunes (not instead of), but that is managed within iTunes (not on the device itself). The mobo is a UD3P... maybe this does have something to do with the built-in FW ports. I will see if I can find a USB adapter or something to test out...

I have a friend who has an older iPod and I could borrow it to see how it behaves on my UD3P and DS3L to compare if you want. Let me know if you don't get it figured out.

That would be great - it would be especially useful to know if it does work using a firewire PCI card instead of the built-in, which would be the cheapest solution. mine is one of the very early (2nd-gen?) models - it doesn't have a dock connector, just a standard 6-pin Firewire port on the top. Thanks again!

Sorry, I did speak to him and he told me he recently included it in a trade deal he did online so he no longer has it. Perhaps someone else has one?

 

[scootermaster]

So excited for tomorrowwwwwww!

 

[Kaido]

UD3P Kit: (18mb)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tggygyldgmz/UD3P.ip

Please download, test, and report back

Read the Readme first. This package is Mac and Windows compatible. Let me know if you encounter any bugs. I'll try to get the DS3L kit up later tonight, after work, then get the Wiki going tomorrow. I did some minor tweaks to the package, so please post back if you run into any errors!

Edit: Re-uploaded with one small note change (to hit a key to boot from the Leopard DVD).

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido
UD3P Kit: (18mb)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tggygyldgmz/UD3P.ip

Please download, test, and report back

Read the Readme first. This package is Mac and Windows compatible. Let me know if you encounter any bugs. I'll try to get the DS3L kit up later tonight, after work, then get the Wiki going tomorrow. I did some minor tweaks to the package, so please post back if you run into any errors!

Edit: Re-uploaded with one small note change (to hit a key to boot from the Leopard DVD).

After a few miscues on my part I got a successful install using the readme instructions. But I've lost the ability to boot my original install, which is on the same HD. I have it backed up so it's not a big problem, but it seems kind of strange I always end up on the new install whether I choose it or my old install at the Darwin prompt. Shutdown and restart work fine, the screen is the proper resolution and sound and ethernet works. I don't use sleep, ever, so I didn't test that aspect. HTH

Edit: After restoring the backup of my original and installing the bootloader again to that partition, my original is working fine now and I can choose as normal. I believe the miscues I spoke of earlier is why this happened and not because of Kaido's install procedure which went fine. I have now installed all the minor updates and things are working very well. Kudos to Kaido for another job well done.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: Kaido
UD3P Kit: (18mb)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tggygyldgmz/UD3P.ip

Please download, test, and report back

Read the Readme first. This package is Mac and Windows compatible. Let me know if you encounter any bugs. I'll try to get the DS3L kit up later tonight, after work, then get the Wiki going tomorrow. I did some minor tweaks to the package, so please post back if you run into any errors!

Edit: Re-uploaded with one small note change (to hit a key to boot from the Leopard DVD).

Excellent. Can't wait to test this bad boy out when my RMA'ed SATA DVD drive arrives!

 

[scootermaster]

I see how it is...no love for the DS3L people.

Kaido, right now I have 2 drives. Boot drive with 2 partitions, the 600gig main partition, and a 10gig partition with a Leopard ISO on it (that I installed from). My second drive also has 2 partitions. Half the drive is a time machine backup, the other half is empty "files" (I was going to put my CD rips here, but haven't yet).

Can I just move over any/all "backups" (i.e. not time machine, but actual datafiles) to the "files" partition and then reinstall? I'm not worried about losing apps or configurations or anything (I think). It's mostly about the datafiles. Those time machine backups, I assume, will be useless, right? Can/should I delete those for more room? I guess this is a little beyond the scope, but in general, should I just stick everything, data and all, on the main drive, and then let time machine back it up on the other drive? (I wanted a different partition for the CD rips because when the drive was external, and I figured it would be easier to jack it into another system and copy files. Not that the RIAA heard that or anything).

Anyway, I'm looking forward to a fresh -- and more stable! -- install.

(And I just remembered I have a Windows XP VM, so I'll have to reinstall that too. Oh well.)

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: Kaido
UD3P Kit: (18mb)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tggygyldgmz/UD3P.ip

Please download, test, and report back

Read the Readme first. This package is Mac and Windows compatible. Let me know if you encounter any bugs. I'll try to get the DS3L kit up later tonight, after work, then get the Wiki going tomorrow. I did some minor tweaks to the package, so please post back if you run into any errors!

Edit: Re-uploaded with one small note change (to hit a key to boot from the Leopard DVD).

Excellent. Can't wait to test this bad boy out when my RMA'ed SATA DVD drive arrives!

Is this for the EP45-DS3P?

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: PCTC2

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: Kaido
UD3P Kit: (18mb)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tggygyldgmz/UD3P.ip

Please download, test, and report back

Read the Readme first. This package is Mac and Windows compatible. Let me know if you encounter any bugs. I'll try to get the DS3L kit up later tonight, after work, then get the Wiki going tomorrow. I did some minor tweaks to the package, so please post back if you run into any errors!

Edit: Re-uploaded with one small note change (to hit a key to boot from the Leopard DVD).

Excellent. Can't wait to test this bad boy out when my RMA'ed SATA DVD drive arrives!

Is this for the EP45-DS3P?

Nope, the UD3P.

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: PCTC2

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: Kaido
UD3P Kit: (18mb)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tggygyldgmz/UD3P.ip

Please download, test, and report back

Read the Readme first. This package is Mac and Windows compatible. Let me know if you encounter any bugs. I'll try to get the DS3L kit up later tonight, after work, then get the Wiki going tomorrow. I did some minor tweaks to the package, so please post back if you run into any errors!

Edit: Re-uploaded with one small note change (to hit a key to boot from the Leopard DVD).

Excellent. Can't wait to test this bad boy out when my RMA'ed SATA DVD drive arrives!

Is this for the EP45-DS3P?

Nope, the UD3P.

PSHT. Stupid me. I meant EP45-UD3P. I'm looking at my box and typing the wrong thing.

 

[Zaap]

Originally posted by: Kaido
UD3P Kit: (18mb)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tggygyldgmz/UD3P.ip

Please download, test, and report back

Good stuff! I'm installing a new UD3P machine for a friend right now- so far, so good!

 

[Zaap]

Perfect install!

Several things I noticed right off the bat. First off, I have a revision 1.1 version of the UD3P. (I've done about 5 installs before this on the version 1.0.) The 1.0 rev wasn't bad at all, but somehow this 1.1 seems absolutely perfect- I dare say, like it was made for OSX.

First off- I didn't have to force a single reboot during the install. It restarted perfectly at each step- no manual shutdown as in step 3. (On previous installs, I recall as many as 3 forced shutdowns.) Right after the 10.5.6 update reboot, no hang at 'Mach Reboot' like I've been used to- it rebooted by itself!

Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk? Because with the old method (Grub-DFE and Auzigog guide), the drives are orange, eSATA ports aren't enabled, and Sys Profiler has the incorrect info from start to finish until hacked. With this, it was the opposite- correct from the start! It's either the Boot-132, or the rev. 1.1 of this board.

The machine sleeps perfectly- a wiggle of my wireless USB mouse wakes it up. Using the built-in Ethernet, Internet is functional again after @ 12 seconds- not the 20 or so it used to take. Both Ethernet ports work fine.

About This Mac reports the correct info once ATM is applied.

Everything works great! It couldn't have been easier. Thanks once again to Kaido for all your hard work on this!

UPDATE: for anyone interested, it seems easy to spot the newer vs. older version of the UD3P by the southbridge heatsink:

On v1, it has a cross-hatch pattern.

On v1.1, it's smooth, with grooves parallel to the RAM slots only.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk?

:evil:

I'll be back this afternoon with the DS3L kit + more details

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Zaap
Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk?

:evil:

I'll be back this afternoon with the DS3L kit + more details

If you wanna throw in a chapter on dual booting then you're got an audience.

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Zaap
Perfect install!

Several things I noticed right off the bat. First off, I have a revision 1.1 version of the UD3P. (I've done about 5 installs before this on the version 1.0.) The 1.0 rev wasn't bad at all, but somehow this 1.1 seems absolutely perfect- I dare say, like it was made for OSX.

First off- I didn't have to force a single reboot during the install. It restarted perfectly at each step- no manual shutdown as in step 3. (On previous installs, I recall as many as 3 forced shutdowns.) Right after the 10.5.6 update reboot, no hang at 'Mach Reboot' like I've been used to- it rebooted by itself!

Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk? Because with the old method (Grub-DFE and Auzigog guide), the drives are orange, eSATA ports aren't enabled, and Sys Profiler has the incorrect info from start to finish until hacked. With this, it was the opposite- correct from the start! It's either the Boot-132, or the rev. 1.1 of this board.

The machine sleeps perfectly- a wiggle of my wireless USB mouse wakes it up. Using the built-in Ethernet, Internet is functional again after @ 12 seconds- not the 20 or so it used to take. Both Ethernet ports work fine.

About This Mac reports the correct info once ATM is applied.

Everything works great! It couldn't have been easier. Thanks once again to Kaido for all your hard work on this!

UPDATE: for anyone interested, it seems easy to spot the newer vs. older version of the UD3P by the southbridge heatsink:

On v1, it has a cross-hatch pattern.

On v1.1, it's smooth, with grooves parallel to the RAM slots only.

Yeah, I never had any manual restarts either, plus no orange HD icons. If I hadn't applied Chameleon to the wrong drive my install would have went perfectly. But then what fun is that, nothing to figure out, no mysteries to solve. :laugh:

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Zaap
Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk?

:evil:

I'll be back this afternoon with the DS3L kit + more details

If you wanna throw in a chapter on dual booting then you're got an audience.

Depends on what you are dual booting with, but using separate HD's and the Gigabyte F12 boot choice it works perfectly with any other OS. On the same drive you can use EasyBCD and that works well also. HTH

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Zaap
Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk?

:evil:

I'll be back this afternoon with the DS3L kit + more details

Wow, it must be Kaido v2.0, actually meeting his self-imposed deadlines. All this and a perfect UD3P install, are you going pro on us?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Zaap
Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk?

:evil:

I'll be back this afternoon with the DS3L kit + more details

Wow, it must be Kaido v2.0, actually meeting his self-imposed deadlines. All this and a perfect UD3P install, are you going pro on us?

Shocking, I know

If you have it installed, run the new UD3P install for a few days and see if there are any bugs. I think the Jmicron driver is still wonky, so if you get any kernel panics or other weirdness, please post back!

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Zaap
Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk?

:evil:

I'll be back this afternoon with the DS3L kit + more details

If you wanna throw in a chapter on dual booting then you're got an audience.

Depends on what you are dual booting with, but using separate HD's and the Gigabyte F12 boot choice it works perfectly with any other OS. On the same drive you can use EasyBCD and that works well also. HTH

It's an IDE HDD that I want to use with Windows x64 something (Have both Server 2008 and Vista licenses)

But if it's as simple as selecting from the boot menu then that is good to hear!

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Zaap
Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk?

:evil:

I'll be back this afternoon with the DS3L kit + more details

If you wanna throw in a chapter on dual booting then you're got an audience.

Depends on what you are dual booting with, but using separate HD's and the Gigabyte F12 boot choice it works perfectly with any other OS. On the same drive you can use EasyBCD and that works well also. HTH

It's an IDE HDD that I want to use with Windows x64 something (Have both Server 2008 and Vista licenses)

But if it's as simple as selecting from the boot menu then that is good to hear!

Yeah, I don't recommend dual-booting on a single drive, it's just too messy with Hackintosh. It's doable, but it's much, much easier with two separate drives. Gigabyte boards have an easy boot selector built-in, so all you have to do is whack F12, select Hard Drive, then select which drive to boot from. Otherwise there's too many options - Mac and Windows? Win XP 32/64? Vista 32/64? Linux? Which OS was installed first? Chain0? EasyBCD? Blah.

Separate drives ftw!

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Jack Flash

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Zaap
Second- from first install, onward- no 'orange' drives. System Profiler reads: Intel ICH10-R AHCI and the ATA/eSATA reads JMicron JMB36x AHCI, as it should, with no separate hack, as the old Auzigog guide requires. Are these drivers part of the Boot-132 disk?

:evil:

I'll be back this afternoon with the DS3L kit + more details

If you wanna throw in a chapter on dual booting then you're got an audience.

Depends on what you are dual booting with, but using separate HD's and the Gigabyte F12 boot choice it works perfectly with any other OS. On the same drive you can use EasyBCD and that works well also. HTH

It's an IDE HDD that I want to use with Windows x64 something (Have both Server 2008 and Vista licenses)

But if it's as simple as selecting from the boot menu then that is good to hear!

Yeah, I don't recommend dual-booting on a single drive, it's just too messy with Hackintosh. It's doable, but it's much, much easier with two separate drives. Gigabyte boards have an easy boot selector built-in, so all you have to do is whack F12, select Hard Drive, then select which drive to boot from. Otherwise there's too many options - Mac and Windows? Win XP 32/64? Vista 32/64? Linux? Which OS was installed first? Chain0? EasyBCD? Blah.

Separate drives ftw!

I have decided I definitely way this when it's available, though.

http://www.insanelymac.com/new-chameleon-announced/

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
I have decided I definitely way this when it's available, though.

http://www.insanelymac.com/new-chameleon-announced/

Meh

 

[Kaido]

DS3L Kit: (26mb)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/z5uzmgnnr2m/DS3L.ip

Applies to the EP35-DS3L and P35-DS3L. Does NOT work on the EP45-DS3L. P35 only, kthx. Please report any bugs you encounter!

 

[mosslack]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
I have decided I definitely way this when it's available, though.

http://www.insanelymac.com/new-chameleon-announced/

Meh

Have you tried this? I downloaded but haven't yet.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: mosslack

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
I have decided I definitely way this when it's available, though.

http://www.insanelymac.com/new-chameleon-announced/

Meh

Have you tried this? I downloaded but haven't yet.

Yeah but it's not really in what I'd call a "user friendly" state yet. But there is some crazy EFI stuff going on right now on different fronts. We could potentially see an EFI-X killer this year (i.e. real EFI, not emulated) via software. If they could do real EFI + the new Chameleon's features, we'd have it made in the shade